Losing music when ejecting

Hi, can someone help me.
I have a 160GB ipod classic bought in October. All has been fine until now.
I have it connected to pc in tunes, i drag and drop some music from my itunes library into my ipod. the music shows up as being in there. I then eject properly, wait for the OK to disconnect to clear, unplug and low and behold nothing on the ipod.
Before this happened I had 800 songs on it and as i say all was well but this week it all disappeared and now i get the above problem.

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